Notable events of 1944 in comics.
Events and publications
Year overall
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Winter
Births
January
- January 6: Claude Lacroix, aka Tartemption, Alias, French comics artist and illustrator (Farfelune, Yann Le Migrateur, Fariboles Sidérales, Cyann), (d. 2021).
- January 24: Robin Wood, Paraguayan-Argentine comics writer (Nippur de Lagash, Dago, Gilgamesh el inmortal,...), (d. 2021).
Deaths
January
- January 2: Orville Peter Williams, A.K.A. O.P. Williams, American comic artist (Gasoline Gus), dies at age 67.
- January 9: Döes, Swiss illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 84 or 85.
- January 20: Arthur LeMay, Canadian caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (continued Les Aventures de Timothée), dies at age 43 or 44.
- Specific date unknown: Bernie Klein, American comics artist (worked for DC Comics, Quality Comics, Lev Gleason), dies in battle at age 23.
February
- February 4: Will B. Johnstone, American lyricist, screenwriter and comics artist (You Know Me Al), dies at age 62.
- February 27: Henri Cassiers, Belgian illustrator, poster artist and comics artist, dies at age 85.
March
- March 30: Lucien Laurent-Gsell, French painter, comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 83.
April
June
September
- September 2: Jan Feith, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (De Geschiedenis des Vaderlands), dies at age 80.
- September 13: William Heath Robinson, British cartoonist, dies at age 72
October
- October 10: Antoni Utrillo, Spanish illustrator, writer, lithographer, painter, comics artist and poster designer (La Rondalla del Dijous), dies at age 76 or 77.
- October 15: Melitón González, Spanish illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 89.
- October 21: Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comics artist (Brinkley Girls), dies at age 68.
- October 23: Gerrit Rotman, Dutch teacher and comics artist (Snuffelgraag en Knagelijntje, Meneer Pimpelmans), dies at age 51.
- Specific date unknown: Robert L. Dickey, American painter and comics artist (Mr. and Mrs. Beans, Buster Beans, Buckey and his Pals), dies at age 82 or 83.
November
- November 16: Ivan Ã
 enÃ
¡in, Russian-Serbian comics artist (illegal Mickey Mouse comics, furthermore made comic strip adaptations of novels), is executed at age 47.
- November 18: Rayko Aleksiev, Bulgarian caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 51, after beaten up during interrogations.
- Specific date in November unknown: Veljko Kockar, Croatian comic artist (Kaktus Bata), dies at age 24.
December
- December 22: Louis Briault, British comics artist (The Comical Capers of Billie Reeves, the Scream of the Screen, The Psychic Trip), dies at age 59.
Specific date unknown
- Vlastimir Belkic, Yugoslavian comics artist (Hari Vilsa, illegal Mickey Mouse comics), dies at age 47 or 48.
- Paul Fung, American comics artist (Innocent Hing, A Guy from Grand Rapids, Big House Fables, Gus and Gussie, continued Dumb Dora), dies at age 56 or 57.
- Henry Thol, American comics artist (Adamson's Adventures), dies at age 57 or 58.
First issues by title
Initial appearances by character name
References